Updates (June 25, 2025)

Life is just work after, the daily go that gives you everything.

After learning coding and zoning out so far, you now have the mind to process everything and learn.

Now everyday is working and getting smarter to have a routine.

This is different from thinking, thinking, thinking work.

You are using your whole body and mind out in the public working and learning from everyone and giving insight on what you have done.

This is past generalizations, this is getting old, this is life on the far end.

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I have a limit naturally. I have a baseline on being who I am.

I can go out and work and work can change me, but I now who I am naturally. Especially with the Vietnamese groups.

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I great thing about what I have done so far is that I went further than the deep end doing stuff. I did stuff that I wanted and went further than normal expectations.

This can ignite a passion in other Vietnamese born in Canada to do the same and live better and more healthy with constant growth and pursuits.

I was sick all the time doing defacto work. This was before going to nursing school and before coding.

A doctor told me the life in the West makes people rely on pills, therapies and labels because of the supports in West.

To move past that is to be strong and work hard and constantly learn. That is why some immigrants without social supports live good working hard everyday. But there is a limit … after 20-30 years in the country they too become soft maybe …

Then the true health is to do your thing and keep running like the healthiest of Westerners … OR keep all this in mind while work an outside stable job. Like know all this while still learning and escaping the pills and labels. Just accept that life can be OK, sometimes boring but as long as you are busy you are OK here in Canada.

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The problem with me …

Growing up I thought the engineering and doctor roles were part of some groups like East Asians and South Asians.

Then I realized it was entirely wrong.

You are supposed to do engineering and coding regardless of what anyone says … maybe healthcare too to be just well rounded and live and grow at first.

In school, nothing made sense why I wasn’t feeling good and right trying those fields throughout university and college.

Then I realized some courses and fields in schools were made limited to some groups to preserve labels and hierarchy.

Then out in the real world (outside schools), you learn nothing makes sense and everyone learns daily everything overtime. As you work and live, nothing makes sense in schools and institutions as everyone needs to make a buck and live even working construction jobs. Then you realize only your parents and family have your back and school is flawed. That is why your parents say you can do anything you want in life. Anyone else says the negative and want you to be nothing much.

Just to get the job done you need to learn everything there is in life. That gap between labels and racism is vanished when you got to work.

And as a coloured person born in Canada, the labels are horrendous. I don’t have the backbone of Vietnamese born in Vietnam who are solid in their identity. My identity growing up in Canada is created by racist people from all over the world and here in Canada. So when you finally grow up and have accomplishments and say “Being racist and thinking in labels makes you sick, then racist people lose their minds and grow.”

Being Vietnamese is really hard here in Canada. But it is easy too. If you have trouble with a racists you just play with your friends and ignore them. You just ignore racists and do your thing as the racists know they are helpless here in Canada. Canada is multicultural and open. No ones opinion really matters as the Western culture is so broad and accounts for the other cultures since the 1970s. Accounts for their issues but everything is open. If it isn’t open, nothing can function.

Being Vietnamese was so hard for me. And now I accomplished something good. I can teach others not to be racist as being racist is limiting.

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The life of a Vietnamese born in Canada …

Life is OK now after working with Vietnamese born in Canada for 4-5 years.

We just live and work ignoring the labels problems of people as we are coloured too.

Just live and work and grow further into the mind and now away from the general generalizations.

Like old, old now. Like living like an wise uncle.

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I don’t really go out in public playing or getting coffee no more.

I got to be old as an “uncle”/”chú” in Vietnamese and only get along with old people now because old people are smart and talk about other things rather than labels.

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My cousins who are younger than me on my dad side, get me as I am more like my father in Canada.

I have a group of cousins that I can chill with on my dad’s side.

But on my mother side they warn me of the upcoming doom life life as they are older. They tell me to work hard and use my brain.

What does that make me? As a Vietnamese born in Canada?

I guess I got to talk to Vietnamese born here more.

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The thing about being Vietnamese that ‘everyone knows’ is that the Canadian/Western system allows Vietnamese to achieve if you just work ‘outside society’ and just with your good constructive friends. In society you fail as you must listen to the hierarchy. You can succeed if you have your own business too like working with your parents.

The people like me sit in the back observing and learning everything while the other people have their “fun”. That is how it is.

But as a Vietnamese I had to thank Canada for all its opportunities for me to study and work. Most ‘Canadians’ know what I am doing in the background … It is all good and adds. Something different I guess. Different is OK. What else is there to prove or do?

And that is life.

How else are you supposed to live and understand everything if you don’t do this as a Vietnamese person in the world?

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